Friday, September 26, 2008

American School Textbooks Exalt Islam while denigrating Judaism and Christianity

"Textbook publishers often defer completely to Muslim groups for their content [on Islam] because they want to be sensitive to Muslim concerns . . . So they write that Mohammed is a prophet of God, without the qualifier you should have in a public school that shows you're teaching about religion, rather than teaching religion."***. . . the Ten Commandments [are] describe[d] . . . as "Moral laws Moses claimed to have received from the Hebrew God Yahweh on Mount Sinai."***. . . the Koran [is described] as a "Holy Book of Islam containing revelations received by Muhammad from God" - without a conditional qualifier.***"Islam is treated with a devotional tone in some textbooks, less detached and analytical than it ought to be . . . Muslim beliefs are described in several instances as fact, without any clear qualifier such as 'Muslims believe... .'"***"All in all, there are repeated misrepresentations that cross the line into bigotry . . . "***"Arab and Muslim interest groups... promote a pro-Arab, pro-Palestinian agenda in textbooks' lessons on the Middle East . . . For example, the Council on Islamic Education has weighed in during adoption processes to oppose the direct and unconditional use of the term 'Israel' for the Israelite monarchy in textbooks, lest anyone make the connection between modern Jews' claims to Israel and the kingdom that existed in the same location 3,000 years ago."***"Developing a textbook and getting it adopted in the major states of Texas and California is so expensive that only those competitors with the deepest pockets stand a chance of succeeding. Only three mega-publishers (down from nine in less than twenty years) control the K-12 textbook market, meaning that more and more titles are concentrated in fewer hands. Errors in one book now stand a greater chance of replicating themselves across other books because they may originate from the same source."***"It is shocking to discover that history and geography textbooks widely used in America's elementary and secondary classrooms contain some of the very same inaccuracies about Christianity, Judaism and the Middle East as those [used] in Iran . . . "***Among the "outrageous misrepresentations" the study found was "a denial of the Jewish roots of Jesus," as when the textbook The World relates that "Christianity was started by a young Palestinian named Jesus."***

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"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [i.e., securing inherent and inalienable rights, with powers derived from the consent of the governed], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? . . . " --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356

Who's Legitimate? Who Cares? We Should.

Born in the USA! Or not. Who cares? He's the "prez," ensconced in our White House. Commander-in-Chief? Title conferred on him by popular electoral acclamation cum ACORN voter fraud.

But a "natural born citizen?" Hardly. Derided as "birthers," "tea-baggers," and "crazies," those who question his legitimacy do have a point.

from The American Thinker:

Barack H. Obama is the logical outcome of racial socialism. You can see it in his words and actions, and his very physical stance, all signaling his sense of superiority, the flip-side of feelings of inferiority he is reacting against. Obama's core support came from the Leftist alliance of grievance groups in spite of his total lack of relevant experience. Obama is objectively the least qualified person to be elected to the presidency. But the media could not say that, because it would have been non-P.C. to tell the truth.
--James LewisWhat Does 'Racial Socialism' Sound Like to You?Thanks to Never Yet Melted

Did the Arabs and Persians Discover their Oil?

We discovered the oil that they are selling us and controlling us with.

Not only the Saudis, but wherever oil was found under Moslem lands, WE made that possible. Surprised?

Well, the "oil-producing nations" nations have done a good job of making us believe that they explored, discovered and are producing the oil that they use as a club over our head.

We explored for it, discovered it, developed it, produced it, marketed it.

Today, they can produce and market it by themselves, but had we not paid for the initial exploration and development, they would be as they were before OIL: nomads, roaming over sterile sand.

Terror Friendly Group - CAIR - Demands Government Censorship

The Saudis want us to learn what is Islam

and we know where most of those who did this came from: Saudi Arabia http://islamicdanger4u.blogspot.com/2008/01/sick-of-sowdis-so-are-we-sick-of-saudi.html

From "LEAVING NORMAL"

I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything.I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.

I think that being a student doesn't give you any more enlightenment than working at Blockbuster. In fact, if your parents are footing the bill to put your pansy ass through 4 years plus of college, you haven't begun to be enlightened.

I want to know which church is it exactly where the Reverend Jesse Jackson practices, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution.Can I get an AMEN on that one?